Dog Rentals

This hotel will let you rent a dog while you stay the night, is this a good or bad idea?

Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:00):
All right, Unfortunately China is kicking our butts in this issue,
in this problem, in this dilemma, the robot war. All
that's coming up at five point fifteen. We got cussing
the cowboys coming up the Today game. But right now
it's time for this.

Speaker 2 (00:14):
Welcome the wild life lue, the.

Speaker 3 (00:23):
Wild life flue.

Speaker 2 (00:27):
So Ben, I love that you just brought up China,
because there is a hotel over in China, just opened
up just a month ago, where you can check in.

Speaker 4 (00:35):
You can have just a normal.

Speaker 2 (00:37):
Night to yourself, or you can pay seventy bucks for
a pet themed room, sign a little agreement with the hotel,
and then pick a dog to accompany you for the
night and maybe even the day. They have ten different
ten different dogs to choose from. They've all been there,
all up to date on their vaccinations, they've been trained,

(00:58):
and they say that the breeds they have.

Speaker 4 (01:00):
Are deemed gentle characters.

Speaker 2 (01:03):
So there's one picture this guy has some Corgi's on
the bed with them. Yeah, Terriers, Golden Retrievers and huskies,
which my husky experience like, those dude are those dogs
are hyper as hell, So good luck with that. But
they've already had more than eighty people do this, like
rand a dog for the night, zero complaints. They absolutely

(01:23):
love it. But on the other side of that, there's
a lot of lawyers who are like, dude, this is
just you are just waiting to get sued. Like maybe
the dogs don't bite someone, they could eventually bite scratch
someone and they're gonna sue you. Or you could have
someone or you could have someone stay there and antagonize
the dog to get them to bite you bite them

(01:44):
and then sue you and claim like, hey, your dog
bit me. And it's like, well, what did you do
to make the dog bite you, Like, we've trained these
dogs not to bite people anyway. So a lot of
people are saying this is just a lawsuit waiting to happen.
Other people love it, like me, I love it because
if I were to travel by myself to China, I
want a little dog to accompany me. You know, I'm

(02:06):
going to miss my own dog, so that would be nice.
But also like a little protector there, it would be nice.

Speaker 4 (02:11):
So your thoughts, I don't know.

Speaker 1 (02:13):
I think you know if you if you're renting a
dog for the night, then the dog is going to
sleep in your hotel room with you, and then that
feels like is that dog and he get in bed
with you? And then do you have to like take
the dog out to rocket douce or is it going
to pee in the corner of the room, or I
don't you know.

Speaker 3 (02:29):
You take that dog out too? Is it get away?

Speaker 1 (02:32):
Now you got a whole crisis there that that dog
also represents a little bit of stress.

Speaker 3 (02:37):
You know, they're taking care of it.

Speaker 1 (02:40):
And man, I hate to say this, but I traveled
to China and I saw I saw an outdoor meat
market there, and I'm just saying, they look at her mouse, Christine.
They look at dogs differently than we do in some cases.
And we were told, you know, my brother was living
there for a while, and they were told there's a

(03:01):
certain time of year where keep your dogs close to
you because if they.

Speaker 3 (03:05):
Get away, somebody will get them and they'll be you know,
they'll be at a meat market.

Speaker 1 (03:11):
And I'm like, so, these dogs are employed, they got
these dogs, These dogs are safe, they have jobs.

Speaker 3 (03:16):
So I support it for that reason.

Speaker 2 (03:18):
They do joke that these dogs get paid one hundred
want a day.

Speaker 1 (03:23):
Really, yeah, So I don't know, man, I have a
lot of questions I can shoot shoot shot shoot shoot, shoot,
shoot shoot shoot. I can't see wanting to do this. No,
I can't either. I think, yeah, I think it'd be
more of a hassle than anything. Would you guys like
this room? Would you like a nagging, angry child?

Speaker 2 (03:46):
No?

Speaker 3 (03:47):
Good, I don't think I do want that, right?

Speaker 4 (03:50):
You guys have bad dog experiences?

Speaker 1 (03:52):
Got some great dogs? Like dogs are a hassle too.
Let me tell you my most recent dog experience. Our
veteran dog, the leader, you know, are wily veteran. He's big,
giant doodle and he's probably in year thirteen, you know,
I don't know.

Speaker 3 (04:07):
He's getting up there.

Speaker 1 (04:08):
I guess he's probably twelve thirteen. But every once in
a while he has horrible diarrhea.

Speaker 4 (04:15):
And it is just these dogs have diarrhea they have
to deal with.

Speaker 1 (04:19):
It is just like walking around with a kool Aid
pitcher filled up to the top. It's just dripping out
all over the house, you know, all over him, all
over spur. And so you might like just to have
a relaxing stay at a boutique hotel, you might be
dealing with chronic dog diarrhea.

Speaker 4 (04:36):
I don't think they would let that happen.

Speaker 3 (04:38):
What do you mean, my wife, we didn't let it happen.

Speaker 1 (04:40):
And why did you guys force that dog to have diarrhea?

Speaker 2 (04:44):
No, I'm just saying like if that was a problem
with their dogs, like they only have what ten dogs
did chet from if one of them was out of service,
so they were dealing with digestive issues, that he'd take
a sick day.

Speaker 3 (04:55):
Bench Oh, they give a sick day. They wouldn't fire him. Absolutely,
can send him out on the street.

Speaker 1 (04:58):
Yeah, but then doesn't he get all the their dogs
and their hotel kennel sick? Maybe because I'm assuming there's
a kennel there.

Speaker 3 (05:07):
Yeah, there's gotta be right.

Speaker 4 (05:09):
Then we can save more dogs from the dog meat market.

Speaker 1 (05:11):
Okay, but what if what if you had to go
take that dog outside in the middle of the night. Now,
are you risking getting mugged because you're outside with a
rental dog?

Speaker 4 (05:20):
It depends what kind of dog I have.

Speaker 1 (05:22):
I would only rent a pit bull on here, but
so that when I take it outside I'm protected. I
think rental dog is a good band name. All right,
Would you rent a dog when you go to China?
That's the philosophical question of the day